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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the character relationships and their connection in the play "As You Like It." Working in groups, students act out the various scenes from the play and discuss the characters and their actions in the scene. Students make plot predictions based on the scenes they have performed. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students connect a scene from a play they are reading to events in their own lives. Working in male/female pairs, students act out a scene from "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Pairs work to role play a scene as an extension of the one they have read, using experiences from their own lives as a springboard. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students explore the language used in Shakespearean soliloquy. Working in small groups of 3-4, students piece together a soliloquy and write a brief description of the meaning being conveyed. They compare their soliloquy to one in the Shakespearean play they are currently reading. Full Review »
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- 12th
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Students engage in an author study about Virginia Wolf. They conduct research using a variety of resources. Students focus upon the role of women in society and literature. They use the information about women authors to create a poster. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students review the handout over Iambic Pentameter, rhyming schemes, feet, and names of lines of poetry. They work through 3 sonnets labeling the rhyme scheme of each sonnet. In addition, they write their own sonnet. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students read an essay titled, "Unforgettable Personalities" to study the influence of character's traits on the resolution of conflict in a narrative. They discuss and complete a worksheet that compares their own personality traits to those of the characters in the essay. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 11th - 12th
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Students, after reading and discussing "Love Medicine," by Louise Erdrich, compare/contrast the concept/theme of love within several multiple pieces of literature and support their claims with textual evidence. They analyze several quotes from several novels as well within this lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students encounter and analyze a wide variety of Shakespearean quotes. They relate the quotes back to the plays they were written in and translate them to today's language and brainstorm what they were trying to say then and now. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students read and analyze a variety of Shakespearean and contemporary puns using Visual Thesaurus computer software. They analyze a pun as a class, then in small groups they analyze a Shakespearean pun using contextual clues and the Visual Thesaurus. Each group then writes an original pun. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students analayze social commentary in music using the song "America" from the musical West Side Story. They are given a brief biographical overview of Leonard Bernstein his major accomplishments, and contributions to American music. Students are given a overview of West Side Story. Full Review »
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